Temporal optimization of ultrabroadband high-energy OPCPA

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 5540-5555

  Moses, Jeffrey ^a   Manzoni, Cristian ^b   Huang, Shu Wei ^a   Cerullo, Giulio ^b   Kärtner, Franz X ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHASE MATCHING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

AMPLIFIER BANDWIDTH; BANDWIDTH PRODUCT; MULTI-STAGE AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC CHIRPED-PULSE AMPLIFIERS; PHASE-MATCHING BANDWIDTH; SEED PULSE DURATION; SEMI-ANALYTICAL APPROACHES; SIGNAL BANDWIDTH;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OSCILLOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL DEVICES; OSCILLOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 65249135884     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.005540     Document Type: Article

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